Killing meeting bloat: how EMs can build an async, written culture

About Julia

She writes the kind of LinkedIn post Ryan stops to read properly rather than scroll past. She comes from a culture she calls super egalitarian, and is unusually blunt about the power a manager holds anyway.

What the conversation covers

For managers whose calendar has quietly eaten the week, and anyone who has killed a standup only to watch it come back. Covers the signals that say a team has a real meeting problem rather than a grumbling one, why it is a culture and leadership problem and almost never a tooling one, the Slack bot Julia uses to retire the daily sync and the one team she put the sync back for, the meetings that should never go async, and what she says to the engineer who tells you they are just bad at writing.